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Word: swells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since all were good. Mildred Natwick deserves extra praise for her superb portrayal of the elderly, but energetic, medium whose series of trances raise hob with the spiritual world. Leorora Corbett, as the product of one of these trances, plays the blithe spirit to perfection. The rest are also swell, even down to the maid, whose small part is a true Coward...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/17/1941 | See Source »

...life of a Nieman Fellow is not all study and lectures, the men revealed. "We intend to see all the football games, and the Nieman dinner every two weeks are swell. We're pretty good poker players. Take your CRIMSON "amateurs" on anytime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Pleases Nieman Fellows | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

...assemble in the Lowell House Common Room at eight o'clock next Friday for the purpose of signing up new members and making plans for filling the skies of Greater Boston with the drone of motors. Men in the University who have had Civilian Pilot Training are expected to swell the list of members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fliers and "Hangars-on" Gather to Enlist Squadron of Harvard Men | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

Eight more regular Freshman football uniforms have been given out in addition in the original 23 to swell the squad to 31 according to a statement made yesterday by Chief Boston, head coach of the Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Gives Out Uniforms To Eight More '45 Gridders | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

...sign on an open cigar box on his office desk: "It's a boy! Take one." Mother was also "an enthusiastic advocate" of big families. Author Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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